All Dear Jac articles – Page 63
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Dear Jac: A powerful case study
Complaints concerning energy companies are beginning to rival the number of hot dinners I've had.
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Dear Jac: Keep in tune
Be it via radio or visual, in-store entertainment is an effective, yet subtle sales tool. Jac Roper reports
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It wasn't music to his ears
As most of you know by now, following concerted campaigns by the two interested parties - the PRS (Performing Right Society) and the PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd), you need licences to play music in your stores. But I must say the tactics are a...
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Dear Jac: Who owns newspapers?
A bit more on newspaper wholesalers and whether they have the right to shred copies that you didn't manage to return in time and for which you receive no credit.
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Dear Jac: This is a rotten story
I must warn that the following is not for the fainthearted and it could be argued that a story full of maggoty rot has no place in a wholesome food magazine.
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Dear Jac: Essex girl? C'est moi, I fink
Let me just sit back for a minute, fling off my white stilettos and say that I'm proud to be an Essex girl.
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How do you rate your advisor?
From a news point of view Jayraj Acharya couldn't have picked a better time to ring. It was March 30. "The council says my rates bill has gone from £5,000 to £9,000," he told me, "and there is no transitional relief."The following day the...
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Dear Jac: Publishing scam revealed
Linda Dance faxed me from her store, Tatsfield Post Office near Westerham in Kent, with yet another variation on the old publishing scam.
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Dear Jac: Publishing scam
These publishing scams tend to come along like rashes - all over the show for a while, then it goes quiet.
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Dear Jac: Power supply
Ossie Aujla's four Nisa stores in County Durham were supplied by Scottish Power.
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Dear Jac: Cheap banking tips
A Cornwall newsagent rang with a good tip on avoiding cash handling charges.
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Dear Jac: On power - and the Post Office
Christine Donnelly, from Great Milton Post Office and Stores, Oxfordshire, has responded via email to two separate pieces I wrote.
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Dear Jac: Rights and wrongs of unwanted mags
A thoroughly fed-up Alan Davies called from The Corner Store at Morriston in Swansea to ask who owns the magazines you pay your wholesaler for.
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Dear Jac: What's it worth to you?
Let's talk money, and bear with me because there is a point at the end.
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Dear Jac: A clever play-on-words scam
Pravin Limbachia was one of a number of retailers who called about the 'Whodunnit in Doncaster' tale.
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Dear Jac: Let us count the ways retailers can be on the losing side
In this intricate economic climate I have to hand it to Link, which is right up there in complexities.
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Dear Jac: Retailer and supplier are Poles apart
The great Polish food rush, which saw many stores stocking up on foreign flavoured meats and pickles to cater for the incoming workers from Poland, is over.
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Dear Jac: Now there's a relief; some good feedback
In the last issue I asked if anyone fancied a fortnight on a busman's holiday, running a village store in Hampshire for Geoff and Lyn Porteus so they could get a much-needed break.